Chapter 41: Ancient Giant
Overlooking a rapidly receding landscape on the earth, Chen Nan recalled the distant past, when he was young, Chen Zhan had once carried him on his back to fly in the air, to this day, he could still feel the excitement of the first time he flew high in the sky, but the past was gone!
The Tiger King flew like electricity, crossing the winding mountains and passing through the fluffy white clouds, half an hour later it brought Chen Nan to the depths of the mountain range about five to six hundred miles away from the City of Sin. At this time, it slowly slowed down its speed, descending from a high altitude, flying forward against the tall forest trees, sometimes also drilling into the jungle to run.
Chen Nan was surprised at first, but slowly realized why it was like this, whenever the Tiger King was carefully stalking it meant that the vicinity was a dangerous zone. There were times when it had just dug into the dense forest when a huge shadow appeared on the ground, and the terrifying dragon crossed the sky
This place was sparsely populated, with a primitive appearance, and only a few strong people from the Free City had set foot here in the past long years.
After traveling for half an hour, the Tiger King completely gave up flying, landed on the ground and began to walk through the mountains and forests. Deep in the mountains, apes cried and tigers roared, there were both ferocious beasts and strange magical beasts, all kinds of strange beasts had been endless.
With the passage of time, the little jade gradually uneasy, if not Chen Nan constantly shaking the hand of the jade ruyi, it has long stopped, even so it also dilly-dallying. After going over a dozen mountains and through a hundred miles of mountain forests, the little jade finally brought Chen Nan into the most primitive territory, where the trees were wolf forests and covered the sky, almost never reached by anyone.
In this primitive region, Chen Nan gradually felt something wrong, here is unusually quiet, not the slightest sound, not at all like the previous place where the birds and beasts whistle, this mountain range is dead silent, the large mountain forest does not have a bird or beast.
In this empty deep mountain Cinnan felt a little hairy, but he did not want to give up halfway, forcing the Tiger King to continue to move forward. Gradually a strong fishy smell drifted into his nose, he frowned for a while, guessing that there must be some vicious beast entrenched in front, the unique odor it gave off made the nearby birds and beasts not dare to approach.
After another ride, Jade completely stopped walking, and even played a rascal on the ground, let Chen Nan how to force it, it no longer move. Until he saw Chen Nan to hang the jade ruyi on its neck, it only "whoosh" jumped up, and then reluctantly walked forward.
After walking out a few miles, the mountainous terrain gradually opened up, the forest became less and less, and huge and horrible footprints began to appear on the ground, each of which was more than two feet long. Only then did Chen Nan realize what evil beasts were ahead, and that they were the ancient giants of legend.
The forest here is dead, all birds and beasts are far away to avoid, but the footprints of the ancient giants are so dense, the front is likely to be the habitat of the giants.
He had a chill, when in the western border of Chu, he and the little princess had happened to meet a giant, at that time, if he did not have Houyi bow in hand, I am afraid that he would have died under the feet of the giant. Now, although his power has greatly improved, he is still far from being able to deal with a giant.
Chen Nan was an easterner, and had never heard of such giant humans ten thousand years ago, and it wasn't until after he was reborn that he heard about them. Adult ancient giants were generally around fifteen feet tall, with the shortest being ten feet tall, and each giant's physique was exceptionally strong and swift. A third-order sub-dragon would not be a match for him, and it was rumored that a robust adult giant was even able to fight a thirty-foot dragon on its own.
Chen Nan patted Little Jade's head and said, "Color Tiger, are there ancient giants ahead?"
Xiao Yu nodded.
"There is a giant."
Xiao Yu shook her head.
"Two."
Xiao Yu still shook her head.
"Are there many?"
Xiao Yu nodded her head.
Chen Nan sucked in a mouthful of cool air, the strength of an adult ancient giant was already close to that of a giant dragon, if there were many giants, he didn't dare to imagine it!
He hesitated for a while before finally gritting his teeth and deciding to continue on, at this point, the Tiger King no longer refused to lead the way in front of him, but Chen Nan rigidly grabbed one of its ears to make it follow.
The fishy stench was getting thicker and thicker, the smell of it was vomit-inducing, one person and one tiger cautiously stalked. The mountains are getting flatter and flatter, a wide open valley is hidden in front, through the shadow of the trees you can see that there is a beautiful small lake in the valley, the turquoise blue water is smooth as a mirror.
The valley was about eight or nine square kilometers, surrounded by large mountains, but did not enclose the valley. The trees in the valley were sparse, even the grass was rare, and the ground was hard as stone by the giants. A small river meandered through the valley, passing through a small lake that was like a mirror, before flowing out from the other end of the small lake and slowly flowing towards the outside of the valley.
When Chen Nan grabbed Xiao Yu's ears and walked into the valley he was shocked and creeped out, in the center of the valley there was a white bone mountain that was as high as a hundred feet, the white bones were intimidating and the ghostly white light was chilling.
In the white bone mountain there is a large hall, high enough to more than ten feet, the palace do not know with what kind of material built, the overall black shiny, the main door of the hall is a demon's huge mouth, hideous horror. Upon closer inspection, the entire palace seemed to have been built based on the avatar of a ferocious demon, giving off an eerie, terrifying feeling.
Chen Nan felt his scalp tingle, his body was chilled, and chills were rising up his spine as he was both shocked and terrified. In addition to being uneasy, Xiao Yu also looked around vigilantly from time to time.
"White bones are piled up into mountains, just how many lives does it take ah This is simply a hell on earth Color Tiger Did you not know that there was such a place a long time ago."
Jade nodded.
"Go, take me closer to have a look."
Tiger King Jade was a little scared, looking in all directions carefully once, before reluctantly stretching out his wings to take Cinnan flying forward.
Came to the white bone mountain near, Chen Nan secretly shocked, those white withered bones are huge, small pieces of bone even taller than him, the ground around the bone mountain white, even up to a few feet thick bone powder, can be presumed that the bone mountain has thousands of years of history, otherwise some white bones will not weathered into bone powder.
He let Xiao Yu fly around the bone mountain, and found that the bone mountain was not completely piled up by dead bones, underneath the white bones was a low stone mountain, the great hall was situated on top of it, and the white bones were piled up and covered up later.
Chen Nan found that some of the white bones actually had bloody flesh attached to them, indicating that they were newly piled up, and the stench was vomit-inducing. The valley was already filled with the fishy smell of giants, coupled with such a strange odor, it was simply unbearable, even Xiao Yu could not help but wrinkle her tiger's nose.
Chen Nan was truly nauseous and resisted the urge to vomit, surveying the great hall on the white bone mountain. Pitch-black hall emanating a demonic black light, hideous demonic mouth black hole, in a trance there seems to be a gust of strange whistling out, as if the ghost of the nine hells of the demonic voice!
Suddenly a slight tremor came from the earth, two tall figures loomed in the distant mountains, Chen Nan was startled, he knew that the giants had returned. Without waiting for his order, Little Jade stuck to the ground and quickly flew towards the distant mountains, after escaping into the mountains it wanted to continue running, but was severely grabbed by Chen Nan's ears, it had to stop, but its eyes were full of panic.
"Color tiger be honest, don't move around."
Cinnan and the Tiger King hid at the foot of the mountain and watched from afar, only to see two giants of different heights walk into the valley from the mountains in the southwest direction, their heavy footsteps landing on the ground emitting a muffled sound. Their whole body was covered with thick body hair under the mountain, as dense and long as beast hair.
The taller one was sixteen feet tall, and his left hand held a stone stick that was seven or eight feet long. In the eyes of ordinary people it was undoubtedly a huge stone pillar, but in his hands it was nothing more than a light weapon.
His right shoulder mountain was clearly carrying a flying dragon that was seven or eight zhang long, which had long since died, with its wings spread out and its head and tail hanging down feebly, swaying with the giant's footsteps.
The other giant was about thirteen zhang tall, he also held a grown stone stick in his hand, and he was carrying an Earth Dragon on his shoulder, the giant was carrying the huge Earth Dragon just like an ordinary person carrying a dead fox.
Chen Nan was exceptionally shocked, both the flying dragon and the earth dragon were incredibly strong, but in the giant's eyes, they were nothing more than food to feed the hungry, it was truly frightening.
"Oh my god," he let out a gasp, and then turned his head to ask Xiao Yu, saying, "Doesn't that Flying Dragon know how to fly, and how could it be hunted by a giant?"
Little Jade looked at the giant in the valley, its eyes filled with horror, it sniffed at Cinnan's question before its two front paws effortlessly cupped a stone block on the ground before pushing it forward with force.
"You mean the giant used the stone to smash the flying dragon down."
Jade nodded vigorously.
"No wonder you colorful tiger is so scared of this place, I see."
The two giants walked towards the Bone Mountain from far away, and at a dozen feet away from the Bone Mountain, they put down the prey on their shoulders and piled it up, while the two giants sat down on the ground afterward.
After about an hour or so, the earth gently trembled once again, and three more giants returned, each carrying a huge monster that was three or four feet long in their hands.
Chen Nan and Tiger King Xiaoyu hid in the mountains and forests boringly watching the situation inside the valley, before the sun set the giants returned to the valley one after another. There were a total of eleven giants inhabiting the area, with the tallest of them reaching seventeen feet, the shortest being an immature giant that was only about eight feet tall, and the rest being between ten and sixteen feet.
After piling up the prey, these giants all knelt down towards the great hall on the white bone mountain, and a sound of urning came out from each of their mouths, seemingly praying for something, and then these giants stood up and walked towards the prey.
The next scene was incredibly bloody as the giants began to partake of the prey that came their way, literally drinking blood. Chen Nan hurriedly turned his head. Little Jade also turned her head over, the expression on her face was incredibly vivid, as if she was also unwilling to see the bloody scene.
"Color tiger, aren't you also eating alive like this, why do you have that look on your face?"
Xiao Yu's gave him a low growl, seemingly retorting.
When the giants finished their dinner, the sky had already darkened, half of the prey had been eaten, and there was a large pile of white bones in the valley, several giants got up and threw those white bones up to the White Bone Mountain.
Although Chen Nan already understood the origin of the Bone Mountain, he didn't know why the giants piled up the white bones into a mountain, not to mention what kind of place the gloomy hall on top of the Bone Mountain was.
By those bone powder under the white bone mountain can be presumed that the earliest pile of white bones has been thousands of years from now, that is to say, the giants generation after generation in the survival of this place, never migrated, which led to the white bones piled up into a mountain.
Just now, all the giants kowtowed to the big hall on the white bone mountain, it can be guessed that the reason why they have never migrated must have something to do with the big hall on the bone mountain which is flooded with demonic dark light.
"Color Tiger where did you find the divine bones you carried back last time, could it be that palace on Bone Mountain?"
Xiao Yu nodded.
"Well, so that's it, what's so strange inside?"
Little Jade stretched out a pair of furry tiger claws for a while to draw, at the same time in the eyes flashed a color of panic. Although it was already psychic, but after all, it would not speak, Chen Nan looked at the clouds, did not know what it wanted to express, only know that there is never a good place.
The sky is getting darker and darker, the giants in the valley put away the prey on the ground and walked towards the forest due west, vaguely you can see a huge grotto at the foot of the mountain, when it is the giants resting place in the evening.
Feeling a little hungry, Chen Nan asked Xiao Yu to lead the way away from the valley, as the odor there was too strong to create even a hint of appetite. After moving away from the odor area, he took out the food that he had bought from the bag behind him and began to enjoy his dinner.
Xiao Yu had already turned into the size of a kitten, staring unblinkingly at the chicken leg in his hand as she lay prostrate on the grass, her face full of longing.
"Color tiger, I'm afraid that even if I give you this bag of food, it won't be enough for you to stuff your teeth, so go hunt a mountain pig or a wild deer by yourself later. But I'm going to follow you, lest you escape and leave me here."
Xiao Yu moved forward and licked her sweet mouth, looking pitifully at Cinnan while continuously opening and closing her nose, sniffing the scent of meat wafting through the air.
"Not only is it a colorful tiger, it's also a greedy tiger." Cinnan tore open the roasted chicken and handed it half of it.
Little Jade plopped down on the grass and ate with gusto, but in the blink of an eye half of the roasted chicken was wiped out by it, and after it finished eating it started licking its lips and looking at Cinnan again. After waiting for a long time and not seeing Chen Nan's reaction, it directly aimed at the bag of food on the grass, and finally couldn't help but stretch out a small furry tiger paw to probe forward.
"Greedy tiger, you're still addicted to eating," Chen Nan reached out and knocked on its head, while moving the bag on the ground to a different position.
Although Xiao Yu was knocked a little, but did not show hostility, but instead to Chen Nan revealed a look of anticipation, and then came to Chen Nan near the front with its head constantly rubbing his thighs.
"Color tiger don't rub it, rub the oil on your mouth on my clothes, are you a guy who usually often pats the imp's ass like this" Chen Nan took out a piece of beef from his bag and waved it in front of his eyes, saying: "If you want to eat it, you can, stay a while and bring me into the palace when it's completely dark, do you hear me".
Xiao Yu took two steps backward at that, but her eyes were still staring at the beef.
"In fact you colorful tiger don't have the right to choose, whether you like it or not, you have to send me into that palace later."
Xiao Yu let out a low growl, as if in protest.
Cinnan passed the beef forward, it nonchalantly opened its mouth and took it, most of the last packet of food entered its belly.
"You colorful tiger is so greedy, sooner or later the kitchen of the Divine Wind Academy will be plagued by you."
Little Jade's eyes lit up upon hearing this, and it happily nodded at Chen Nan as if to express its gratitude.
Seeing it in such a state, Chen Nan knocked it and said, "I didn't realize that my unintentional remark had given you a wake-up call. Remember that when you get caught at that time, don't tell people that I instructed you." He then laughed, ''Greedy colorful tiger stealing food and drinks in the Divine Wind Academy kitchen in a big way hehehe, it's really something to look forward to ah''
One person and one tiger indulged in bad fantasies, one imagined a funny scene when the Divine Wind Academy made a big fuss about food thieves, the other began to weave beautiful dreams for his own mouth and stomach.
An hour later when it was completely dark, Chen Nan hurried Tiger King Xiao Yu towards the valley where the giant resided. There were only a few stars in the night sky, and the world was dark, with black clouds surrounding the Bone Mountain and the Great Hall, as if it was the devil's gas, which made one's heart feel cold.
At this time due to the west of the grottoes a dark, Chen Nan forced the small jade to fly there, but in the near grottoes two hundred feet distance when it died also refused to move forward. Chen Nan listened carefully, a burst of dull breathing sounds reached his ears, the giants seemed to have entered dreamland.
"These big guys have all gone to sleep, this is good, Color Tiger take me to the palace on White Bone Mountain."
Jade reluctantly flew towards the white bone mountain in the valley, under the dark night, the hundred feet white bone mountain was phosphorous and ghostly. The palace on the bone mountain appeared particularly eerie in the night, resembling a huge demon poking out a hideous head from thousands of withered bones.
Little Jade carried Cinnan as she swooped down from the air, flying towards the main gate shaped like the demon's giant mouth. There were nine steps below the main entrance of the great hall, and each step shone brightly.
Chen Nan's face was filled with shock, each step was covered with divine bones, and the faint light was emitted by the divine bones!
"Oh my god, divine bones paving the ground, it's unbelievable!"
Xiao Yu landed on top of the steps, vigilantly watching the direction of the main entrance.
Chen Nan carefully examined the God Bones on the ground and realized that these scattered bones were just the remains of a God, which had been disassembled and spread on top of the nine steps. Under careful observation, he realized that a pair of hand bones were missing.
"Could it be that this is one of the two Ancient Gods that once fought in the God War Ruins, how could his bones be broken up and spread here? Is it because they want all those who enter and leave the hall to trample on it?" Chen Nan felt a sense of uneasiness, the person who had such a great hatred for the God was by no means a mortal, and he immediately thought of another Ancient God in the Great War.
"Could it be another Ancient GodNo, two Ancient Gods exploded their bodies and died together, it couldn't have been done by another God."
Inside the hideous and terrifying main door of the hall was a black hole, without a trace of light, a trace of cold air emanated outwards, and a faintly strange whistle emanated from it.
A chill surged through Chen Nan's heart, he felt a little fearful, not knowing what kind of place was in the hall in front of him, whether to go in or not, he hesitated for a while
